Kim Werker What?

It’s up for pre-order on Amazon (it’ll be released in October), and I’m so in love with the photos and illustrations (again). Designs in the book are by some of the best up-and-coming crochet designers today:

Shelby Allaho
Mary Jane Hall
Julie Holetz
Chloe Nightingale
Chelle Grissam
Amy O’Neill Houck
Amy Swenson
Dora Ohrenstein
Lauren Irving
Annette Petavy

Illustrations are by Cynthia Frenette. Photos are by [...]

Track-changes is the canvas of my life.
No kidding.
Words I need to communicate come out in underlined dark green, to mingle with the copy editor’s pink, our editor’s red, and the occasional yellow highlight. And now that I’m working on the magazine, track changes has become a part of my weekly, if not daily, workflow.
Track changes [...]

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Crocheting = Good for Babies, originally uploaded by kpwerker.
In the last few years, my high school friend M. and I haven’t been able to grab more than an hour or two for a visit when I’m in town visiting [...]

Whee!

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Tim Hortons Moved In, originally uploaded by kpwerker.
Despite the nagging detail of the quintessential Canadian chain having been bought by an American giant (ETA: then, it would seem, spun off), I was giddy with anticipation for a Timmy Ho’s [...]

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A Visual Assault, originally uploaded by kpwerker.
The horrah! Does it make your eyes spin in spirals?
This is my first granny square for the granny-along (hi Craft readers!). I might change the way I make the cream border, but I’ll [...]

OMG. Have you heard about the furor over a pre-teen book that uses the word “scrotum”?
Seriously? It’s not even slang. It doesn’t even have a derogatory connotation.
Every kid should know the word and what it means. That it’s specifically school librarians who are up in arms over this makes the frenzy even more absurd. [...]

I think I’ll have to be “sick” for a few days in late July.

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